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Nandroids not working... help?

Apologies for what is probably an often asked question, but the search seems to be down at the moment. I'm currently running Ras 2.3 and when I make a nandroid backup of my MIUI, it always runs into an error when trying to restore? I don't even know where to begin looking for solutions to the issue, is this a common thing? Should I just re-flash Ras or something?

Seems the backup was corrupted, reflash your recovery, then make a new one.

Yeah every backup I do seems to get corrupted. I'll try reflashing AmonRa.

thegregbradley said:
Yeah every backup I do seems to get corrupted. I'll try reflashing AmonRa.
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Let me know how it goes. Also make sure to have at least ~500mb available for a backup.

So I finally re-flashed AmonRa 2.3, and my nandroids STILL show an error! It gets like one dot into resotring and says "oops! an error occurred, check the logs" or something like that. What is happening

first thing would be to check your memory card to see if you have enough space like the post above says. if that doesn't work move the recovery.log via your recovery screen to the sd card and post it here. that should get some questions answered.
edit: also i had this happen to me a couple times when trying to restore it only happened when i changed big things like the radio or the hboot or switching from aosp to sense. that kinda stuff. you might just need to start over and flash a new rom. good thing you used titanium...right? p.s. just relized you were trying to restore not backup so the memory card issue shouldn't apply sry.

I have my MIUI backup so it's not so much of a big deal since that works, but I'd like to have a 100% working nandroid backup in the event that I wanna try out a new rom. Where to I find the recovery log so that I may post it up on here? Thanks for the help guys, I'd be lost without xda

So I just tried moving my recovery log to the SD card and I got the same message, "Oops... something went wrong! Please check the recovery log!"
WTF is going on here?

Potential causes and solutions:
Corrupt SD card. You're screwed, reformat SD card and flash the rom over again.
Corrupt Nandroid file. You're screwed, delete from SD card and flash the rom over again.
Corrupt Recover. Download Rom Manager and re-flash recovery (if you use clockwork, flash alternate then back to clockwork or vice versa if you use amon ra). If this doesn't work, it's likely one of the two above.
However, this is usually the problem when they mess up.
Is there a space in the name of the Nandroid backup? Nandroid backups can NOT EVER have a space in the title. Go into your favorite file manager and remove the space if it has one and it should work just fine.
For example:
MikFroyo 4.61 is NOT an acceptable name. There's a space between the o and the 4.
KonisEliteSeriesIII IS an acceptable name. Notice, there's no spaces.
Hit the thanks button if I helped. Toodles!

Don't use ROM Manager to reflash Amon Ra. Just use the PC36IMG
Trust me on this.

Is it possible that your original nandroids were with clockwork and now that you have updated to amon that they will not work?

Okay so I've re-flashed Amon Ra and reformatted my SD card and I STILL can't get the nandroids to work or my recovery log to move over to the SD card! I've only used Amon Ra for as long as I've been rooted, and nandroids previously worked. Also, these are nandroids that I made within the last 2 weeks or so, they're not old and I have not renamed them. Should I maybe try an older version of AmonRa or something?

OMG I figured it out! Here's the story:
So I bought a new SD card a few weeks back and put it in with just a straight copy of my old SD card in there. This included my nandroid folder. I had been making backups and deleting old backups, but the folder under sdcard/nandroid/HT089HL02240 simply needed to be deleted. I kept sdcard/nandroid, deleted HT089HL02240, then made a new nandroid so that the recovery could simply make this folder itself. Somehow this worked, I don't know why, but it seemed like it might help being that you can't restore nandroids between phones. Perhaps the recovery thought I was attempting to do this, given the SD card switch. Well it works now!

RA Recovery Error

First off I have searched through the threads and Google and havent found an answer to my exact issue.
I was messing with BootManager 2.0 and running CM7 and trying to install a stock sense rom as a SD boot ROM. The rom wouldnt run from the card. So I backed up CM7 and tried to run the sense rom as my default and then run CM7 as the SD bootable. Then when I tried to run the RA Recovery of CM7 I got the generic "oops somthing went wrong" and it hapend on all the recoveris I have. I cannot move the recovery log to the SD card either because of the same error.
I copied my needed content off my SD card and formatted it and coped back mu pics, downloads, and nandroids, and tried again and still same error. Even after reflashing RA nothing is changing.
Is there anyway to get my nandroids back?

Was there enough space on the sd card when you made the backup?

Yeah I had plenty of room. I had at least 1.4 GB free after the backup.
My origanal WiMax and Stock Rom recovery are looking like they are corupted as well.

spotopolis said:
Yeah I had plenty of room. I had at least 1.4 GB free after the backup.
My origanal WiMax and Stock Rom recovery are looking like they are corupted as well.
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Have you tried re-flashing the recovery via PC36IMG? And if your wimax is corrupted, then its shot. You have no other copies of it?

My wimax still works, its just the backup, the very first backup I made when I rooted my phone will not even work now. Any new rom I install will still run wimax. The partition is fine.
I wiped everything and then placed my recoveris back on my card and went to CWM and then back to RA to try to get rid of anything lingering. I know my previous backups worked because I use them all the time. It was after using BootManager that none of my recoverys new or old will work. It will let me flash new roms and even back them up but then I can not even restore those
Edit: One thing I was thinking of doing. What if I compleatly whent stock unroot and s-on and then rooted again. Would that have any effect? It seems like its something on the phone or in RA that is causing the issues. Just because any new backup I make it will give the same error. So if I go back and start fresh, then try to use my backups, would that work?

Why not try re-flashing Amon-Ra first
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I have through the bootloader and still no change. I then wiped everything and then installed CWM, then reflashed RA 2.3 and still when selecting Recover or Move Log to SD Card It starts working and gives 1 progress dot and then stops and says Oops something has happend, and ask me to check the log, but I cant because it wont let me move it because of the same error. I tried to look in the cache/recovery folder with ES File Explorer with root access but the folder is empty, so I have really no idea whare it is breaking at.

imheroldman said:
Why not try re-flashing Amon-Ra first
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This.
I've had that happen twice since I got my Evo (Both times on CM7, ironically) and I reflashed AR and it was good to go.

As I have said in 3 of my 4 post I have re-flashed RA. No change.

Reflash via pc36img not through bootmanager. Put it on root of ur SD card. Boot into boot loader and accept the update.
free the dirk

As I said also in post #7 I flashed it through the bootloader as well. BootManager is for duel booting roms, or quad-booting rather. I wasnt trying to flash through that. I went as far just now as compleatly unrooting to stock GB 2.3.3 with s-on and then rerooted and reflashed RA 2.3 and they are still not working. Why and how did my backups become corrupt? I did not touch them. What could I do to bring them back?

spotopolis said:
As I have said in 3 of my 4 post I have re-flashed RA. No change.
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Just want to double check, did you download RA to make sure your download isn't corrupted... Also I wonder if you were using sdcard multimount, which can corrupt data on the sdcard

The only mounts I was using was the USB-Mount built in RA and the Disk Mode in the roms. The download of RA I am using is the same one I always have that has never given me issues before.

Have you tried formatting your SD card from Amon Ra? I know that you formatted an reflashed, but it's just odd. It seems like one of those two things would do something. You can make backups but just can't restore, correct?
Do you have an extra card you could use? Maybe that way you can narrow down if it's the card or your recovery. I don't know if it's even possible, but can your recovery partition get messed up?
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I formatted the card threw windows after running a chkdsk on it. then I formatted again through RA. Still no go. Now I am trying to partition it and see if that makes a difference.
EDIT: Success! for whatever reason that makes no sense at all, partitioning the SD Card to a ext4 made the recovery work. I have never ran my card with partitions before so I have no idea why this worked. Thoughts?

spotopolis said:
I formatted the card threw windows after running a chkdsk on it. then I formatted again through RA. Still no go. Now I am trying to partition it and see if that makes a difference.
EDIT: Success! for whatever reason that makes no sense at all, partitioning the SD Card to a ext4 made the recovery work. I have never ran my card with partitions before so I have no idea why this worked. Thoughts?
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I was so going to suggest partitioning your card, but I thought formatting would do the same trick. Don't know why it worked, but I'm glad it did
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spotopolis said:
I formatted the card threw windows after running a chkdsk on it. then I formatted again through RA. Still no go. Now I am trying to partition it and see if that makes a difference.
EDIT: Success! for whatever reason that makes no sense at all, partitioning the SD Card to a ext4 made the recovery work. I have never ran my card with partitions before so I have no idea why this worked. Thoughts?
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Honestly...no reason why that should have worked, though beware, you pc may not read you sd card because windows only likes ext 2 and 3 partitions; it won't see ext 4.

I already checked to make sure and so I could transfer my files back and it reads it just fine

spotopolis said:
I already checked to make sure and so I could transfer my files back and it reads it just fine
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Well that is a plus.

Papa Smurf151 said:
Reflash via pc36img not through bootmanager. Put it on root of ur SD card. Boot into boot loader and accept the update.
free the dirk
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This.
Pardon my harshness but Boot Manager, ROM Manager, Kernel Manager, it's all crap. Add CWM in there too.
The BEST ways to do something is to not shortcut the process with these programs. Like flashing radios. You know if you find a pc36img of the radio you want ot flash, there is no reboot to recovery, wait, blahhhh.... it does it all in Hboot, just like this. Put the PC36IMG on your SD Card and flash it in Hboot, as it was designed to be done

Wipe and Backup Questions

Still pretty new, my history is as such...rooted, installed Juggernaut 3.7, then flashed 2.3.6 wifi calling Rom a few weeks ago WITHOUT wiping. Now ready to flash Jugg 4.1 and it requires a "wipe". So I have a few questions so I better understand this and what I'm actually deleting.
-Is anything on my SD card at risk when wiping?
-First and foremost I want to make sure I don't lose any pics from my gallery, all are stored on my sd card. Contacts and calender are via google.
-Titanium Backup - what should I be backing up off this huge list of stuff?? Just the apps that I personally installed that I want to keep, like game saves? Or is this where I would save my memos?
-CWM - the backup from here is JUST for the ROM/operating system files?? I made backups of my original stock ROM and everything before I installed Jugg 3.7. Is there any reason I would want to or need to backup my current 2.3.6 Whitehawkx rom if all these ROM's are still available for download? Again, just trying to understand WHY we're doing all of this.
-Why do I show an SD card and an External SD card? Do I not just have the ONE sd card that I put in the phone??
Thanks for your help! I don't mind just following instructions, but it drives me nuts not to understand WHY I'm doing something. Or in some cases assuming I know and screwing something up!

escrowdog said:
Still pretty new, my history is as such...rooted, installed Juggernaut 3.7, then flashed 2.3.6 wifi calling Rom a few weeks ago WITHOUT wiping. Now ready to flash Jugg 4.1 and it requires a "wipe". So I have a few questions so I better understand this and what I'm actually deleting.
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A full wipe means going into recovery.
wipe data/factory reset.
wipe cache.
wipe davlik.
escrowdog said:
-Is anything on my SD card at risk when wiping?
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No, unless you format your SD card.
escrowdog said:
-First and foremost I want to make sure I don't lose any pics from my gallery, all are stored on my sd card. Contacts and calender are via google.
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They should be safe. I've never had a problem.
escrowdog said:
-Titanium Backup - what should I be backing up off this huge list of stuff?? Just the apps that I personally installed that I want to keep, like game saves? Or is this where I would save my memos?
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When you open Titanium BackUp, click on Backup/Restore up on top.
Press the menu button.
Press Batch.
Press Run Backup all user apps. (do not backup system data, it might create problems when you switch/update roms)
Wait for it to finish.
(You can also backup "Wi-Fi Access Points" if you do not want to have to re-enter that info. I do not use bluetooth, but i think you could also save "Settings/Bluetooth...." and possibly "Bluetooth Pairings". They are all in Green text.)
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-CWM - the backup from here is JUST for the ROM/operating system files?? I made backups of my original stock ROM and everything before I installed Jugg 3.7. Is there any reason I would want to or need to backup my current 2.3.6 Whitehawkx rom if all these ROM's are still available for download? Again, just trying to understand WHY we're doing all of this.
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You want to do a Nandroid backup to fall back on in case something goes wrong or you do not like the new rom.
escrowdog said:
Thanks for your help! I don't mind just following instructions, but it drives me nuts not to understand WHY I'm doing something. Or in some cases assuming I know and screwing something up!
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No problem.

[QUOTE=_eroz;20804419]A full wipe means going into recovery.
wipe data/factory reset.
wipe cache.
wipe davlik.
No, unless you format your SD card.
They should be safe. I've never had a problem.
When you open Titanium BackUp, click on Backup/Restore up on top.
Press the menu button.
Press Batch.
Press Run Backup all user apps. (do not backup system data, it might create problems when you switch/update roms)
Wait for it to finish.
(You can also backup "Wi-Fi Access Points" if you do not want to have to re-enter that info. I do not use bluetooth, but i think you could also save "Settings/Bluetooth...." and possibly "Bluetooth Pairings". They are all in Green text.)
You want to do a Nandroid backup to fall back on in case something goes wrong or you do not like the new rom.
No problem.[/QUOTE]
Just wanna say great answer for anyone unknowing...

Wow! Thank you!! Excellent information.
What is Nandroid backup?? I've heard this before as well. I thought I had all the bases covered with CWM and Titanium?

escrowdog said:
Wow! Thank you!! Excellent information.
What is Nandroid backup?? I've heard this before as well. I thought I had all the bases covered with CWM and Titanium?
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that is the backup you perform in CWM.
Reboot into Recovery.
Scroll down to "backup and restore", Press the Power button.
Scroll to "Backup", Press the Power button.
Wait for it to finish.

_eroz said:
that is the backup you perform in CWM.
Reboot into Recovery.
Scroll down to "backup and restore", Press the Power button.
Scroll to "Backup", Press the Power button.
Wait for it to finish.
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Okay, cool, thank you! Where does this backup to...SD card or to a partition on the phone?
So why do I show an SD card and an External SD card?? I remember being confused by this before as to where to actually drop the ROM zip.

escrowdog said:
Okay, cool, thank you! Where does this backup to...SD card or to a partition on the phone?
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It saves it to the external SD card.
escrowdog said:
So why do I show an SD card and an External SD card?? I remember being confused by this before as to where to actually drop the ROM zip.
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This phone shows the 16gb internal storage as SD card and your actual sd card as the External SD card. You can place the Rom zip in either. You just need to remember which.

_eroz said:
It saves it to the external SD card.
This phone shows the 16gb internal storage as SD card and your actual sd card as the External SD card. You can place the Rom zip in either. You just need to remember which.
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Okay, that's what I THOUGHT but....
Thank you again, learned a ton here! Feeling more confident about doing this stuff knowing I'm backing up properly.

_eroz said:
that is the backup you perform in CWM.
Reboot into Recovery.
Scroll down to "backup and restore", Press the Power button.
Scroll to "Backup", Press the Power button.
Wait for it to finish.
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Also, I went into Rom Manager and initiated the backup from there...it went into clockwork recovery and did the backup.

Just loaded up Jugg 4.1 all is well.
Restoring from the free version of Titanium. The batch operation keeps hanging up. It will install a few apps, then hang on one. Any trick?

Yeah, that occasionally happens. Do the batch restore but uncheck the app that hangs. When it is done, restore the lone app. Or restore the apps one at a time.

_eroz said:
Yeah, that occasionally happens. Do the batch restore but uncheck the app that hangs. When it is done, restore the lone app. Or restore the apps one at a time.
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I think it was because the first app that restored was Zedge and I click OPEN after it installed, instead of DONE. I closed everything and restarted the backup process and just clicked DONE on everything it went smooth! Learning by doing!

Juggernaut ROM is a drug.
Excellent questions and answers. Great post.

ninrocket said:
Excellent questions and answers. Great post.
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Thanks. There are so many steps and things to do when rooting and flashing and wiping. All the developers do a pretty good job of telling you what steps to do, but terminology gets blurred for anyone not familiar and creates a lot unnecessary posts. Like the Nandroid backup...why isn't called a CWM backup!!?? That's the program that creates it!! Once you know you KNOW. But I think a really informative Q and A would help a lot more people get comfortable rooting and flashing their phones...which I think is what all dev's want...LOTS of downloads. Not to mention these phones are SO much more enjoyable and functional with root and custom roms.

Did I lose everything?

I updated from CM 10 to 10.1, I booed into clockwork recovery and backed up my current ROM, then formatted data/system and flashed 10.1 and gapps.
I rebooted and logged into my account to download titanium backup, but nothing is there to restore!
Help!

thereddog said:
I updated from CM 10 to 10.1, I booed into clockwork recovery and backed up my current ROM, then formatted data/system and flashed 10.1 and gapps.
I rebooted and logged into my account to download titanium backup, but nothing is there to restore!
Help!
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Titanium Backup's backups are different from CWM's nandroid backups. TiBu's backups are per-app. CWM nandroids are basically images of the entire phone. You could nandroid CM10.1, restore your CM10 nandroid from CWM, back up its apps and data using Titanium, restore your CM10.1 nandroid, and restore your Titanium backup.
Also, I'm not 100% sure about this, but Titanium Backup may have the capability of extracting apps and data from CWM nandroids.

Oh no! The sdcard partition was formatted! ****

Are you sure? If you're using an older version of CWM it will make a folder called "0" on the SD. All your stuff will be in there

I'm so mad

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I'm so mad
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Has it formatted or done what I said it might have done?

Everything is gone, I didn't realize that in clockwork recovery that 'format data/factory reset' touched the sdcard partition
Ugh

thereddog said:
Everything is gone, I didn't realize that in clockwork recovery that 'format data/factory reset' touched the sdcard partition
Ugh
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It shouldn't, or at least in other recoveries like TWRP it doesn't
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Then I have no idea what happened. I watched the log and it formatted /sdcard/.secure but that was it

I loaded up ROM Manager to see if there were any backups to restore to, and there was one from 12/26! So I guess the sdcard partition wasn't formatted? What's going on here?

thereddog said:
I loaded up ROM Manager to see if there were any backups to restore to, and there was one from 12/26! So I guess the sdcard partition wasn't formatted? What's going on here?
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Like I said, the 0 folder strikes again
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Yes, but I used ES File Explorer (as root) and I couln't see anything.. Ugh.. I dunno, I didn't lose anything though! Thanks

[Q] Unable to Make Nandroid Backup

Unable to create Nandroid Backup of Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 with Clockwork Mod Recovery v6.0.3.6
It indicates that the extSD is not found, I have a micro SD in the device.
Please help I want to back up before flashing any ROMs onto it!

rutheeMe said:
Unable to create Nandroid Backup of Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 with Clockwork Mod Recovery v6.0.3.6
It indicates that the extSD is not found, I have a micro SD in the device.
Please help I want to back up before flashing any ROMs onto it!
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Are you intentionally trying to backup your extSD? Should be backing up your internal storage.
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joeyhdownsouth said:
Are you intentionally trying to backup your extSD? Should be backing up your internal storage.
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I'm trying to make a full image backup of the phone so I have something to restore to if I want to go back to this image.

If you have a new s3 then you need a modified recovery. You can save your nandroid to your internal as well.

Do you own a newer or older S3 like metalfan78 asked? Makes a big difference these days as far as what works and what doesn't. I have had this phone since the day it was released. Never a problem with recoveries working or any of that. Normally I backup system(ROM), data, boot(kernel) before a new flash.

joeyhdownsouth said:
Do you own a newer or older S3 like metalfan78 asked? Makes a big difference these days as far as what works and what doesn't. I have had this phone since the day it was released. Never a problem with recoveries working or any of that. Normally I backup system(ROM), data, boot(kernel) before a new flash.
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I purchased my S3 in July 2012. Please advise how you back up your Rom and if it is possible to verify the backup.
Thank you

I had an issue with my GS3's custom recovery not recognizing my SD card. When I looked around a little more I realized I couldn't really see anything on the internal storage either. There were folders in the directory, but the were empty. It made it so I couldn't do what I should normally be able to accomplish. I tried reflashing custom recovery to no avail.
I ended up unrooting, returning to stock, reflashing custom recovery, rerooting, and reflashing my custom ROM. It was a bit of a process but everything is running like a charm.